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Gradyville Baptist Church: Coming back to life June 24, 2012 2012-06-19 - 159 Old Gradyville Church Road, Gradyville, KY - Photo by Melissa Stone. This photo of the Gradyville Baptist Church: is a favorite of readers of ColumbiaMagazine.com. It's not the most recognizable picture in the minds of the hundreds of thousands of people who see it from Edmonton Road/KY 80 or from the Louie B. Nunn/Cumberland Parkway. For them, it is most often the name of a stunningly beautiful country church - for many, the most beautiful church scene in all of America. This photo is better - up close and personal, from a vantage point near Big Creek that captures the timelessness of a great, still vibrant business and residential center, with a spiritual quality all its own. It was taken by Melissa Stone in 2008 and inspired her to write one of the all time great CM articles, "The Gifts of Gradyville." (To read that story: first posted posted on 2008-07-08 08:34:16 on CM Click to: The Gifts of Gradyville originally written under the name Melissa Taylor) Now comes the news from Deacon Mike Bennett that there's new life for the church. Starting Sunday morning, June 24, 2012, with Sunday School, and the following week, July 1, 2012, a full schedule of services, with Sunday morning preaching begins anew. -EW. Read More... | Permalink | Comments?

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